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A programme of the International Social Science Council hosted by the University of Bergen, Norway.

The fundamental mission of CROP is to work in collaboration with knowledge networks, institutions and scholars to build independent, alternative and critical knowledge and education on poverty, and to help shape policies for preventing and eradicating poverty.

Second semester 2016 - page 1 - CROP Second semester Mobilizing critical research for 2016 preventing and eradicating poverty

FOREWORD CROP Secretariat By CROP Scientific Director P.O. Box 7800 Alberto Cimadamore N - 5020 Bergen - NORWAY Visiting address: Jekteviksbakken 31 The second half of 2016 saw the The working paper series (WPS) on Phone: +47 555-89744 / -89703 introduction of three key initiatives global challenges is a co-operative eMail: [email protected] that will help to consolidate and effort between CROP and UiB Global Website: www.crop.org expand the CROP network. The and was conceived as a vehicle for : @CROPoverty attainment of a NOK 2 million grant to scholars in our global network to implement an ambitious programme on promptly disseminate their current poverty and sustainable development in research. As both CROP and UiB Table of Contents Africa; the publication of the first book Global are involved in activities all in a new CROP series with Ibidem over the world, we have decided to Events Press; and the launch of a working create a space for the voices of the p3. NorLARNet conference 2016 in paper series on global challenges, are South and the North to interact Bergen all relevant benchmarks in relation to and express their epistemologies Presentation at RIOOD event in CROP’s strategic plan for 2015-2020. and perspectives. The first paper to Buenos Aires be published addresses the global p4. Workshop: Welfare States, Labour The programme on poverty and issues of inequality and poverty. It Rights and Basic Income in Latin sustainable development is based identifies some of the “elephants” in America «New» poverty in Middle Income on an existing partnership between the room and suggests that unless Countries (book launch) CROP, UKZN and CODESRIA inequality is substantially reduced p5. Lecture and launch of the new and aims to strengthen research and the world will risk missing the target Working Paper Series on Global educational cooperation through joint of ending by 2030. Challenges activities and a mutual exchange of p6. 2016 General Assembly of the ISSC staff and students. In the long term, Finally, on behalf of the CROP in Oslo it is hoped to consolidate a regional Secretariat, I would like to wish p7. Social Inclusion and Poverty Eradication Workshop epistemic community in the field of our readers all the best for 2017! sustainable development and poverty Publications reduction in a continent that is home p8. CROP books published autumn 2016 to half the world’s extreme poor. Joint winners of CROP International The joint initiative will offer courses Studies in Poverty Prize 2016 with a state-of-the-art, research-led Special issue of the Journal of curriculum, both on-line and on- International and Comparative Social site. A virtual reading room with Policy p9. New Working Paper Series on Global free and open access will facilitate Challenges access to the reading materials and Poverty Briefs: Autumn 2016 will secure the legacy of the project.

News from CROP The new book series with Ibiden p10. “Visualising Poverty Research” Press adds a new outlet for CROP Visit to Bergen by representatives to publish peer-reviewed works from EADI produced within our network. It also p11. UTFORSK project granted Student interns at the CROP guarantees worldwide distribution Secretariat through Columbia University Press. The first book is the result of an Calendar international workshop in Greece in p12. Selected CROP Events in 2017 2014, and will be followed by others.

Second semester 2016 - page 2 - CROP EVENTS Child Poverty and Welfare: comparative views - NorLARNet Conference 2016, Bergen

On 31 August 2016, CROP organised a panel entitled “Child Poverty and Welfare: Comparative Views” at the Norwegian- Latin America Research Network’s (NorLARNet) Annual Conference in Bergen. The theme of the conference was “Latin America Research for a Troubled World”. The panel was chaired by CROP’s Scientific Director Alberto Cimadamore. Additional experts, including Helga Bjørnøy Urke (PhD student at the Department of Health Promotion and Development (HEMIL) at the University

of Bergen) and Alberto Minujin (Founder of Equity for © Photo: CROP Children and Professor at The New School, New York), were invited to present their latest research. Minujin also The panel discussion covered multiple topics, including presented the recently published book, “Lo Esencial No conditions for children in Latin America, the childcare Puede Ser Invisible A Los Ojos: Pobreza E Infacia En system in Colombia, children’s poverty in urbanised América Latina”. The book is a result of a previous CROP areas, and the conditions required to break the vicious workshop and was edited by Minujin, Mónica González circle that hinders the development of efficient social Contró and Raúl Mercer. Sonia Alvarez (Professor at the welfare structures. Comparative perspectives were shared National University of Salta, UNSa) also participated in and alternative strategies identified that could help the panel and provided further comments on the book. build more equal societies for children. Link to event

• 5.1: End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere; • 10.3: Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome; • 16.b: Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development.

CROP’s presentation raised a critical view of the international development agenda during the past decades, the trend to underestimate the scale of world poverty and hunger, and the role of science in the assessment of policy impact as a

© Photo: CROP way to extract lessons for the post-2015 development agenda (SDGs). An adequate understanding of this phenomenon Presentation for the Ibero-American and of the structural and institutional conditions that Network of Organizations reproduce poverty at national and global levels is considered against Discrimination a pre-requisite for a consistent and realistic strategy against poverty and discrimination in the Ibero-American context. The Ibero-American Network of Organizations against Against this background, the importance of discourses Discrimination (Red Iberoamericana de Organismos y in the social construction of poverty and discrimination Organizaciones contra la Discriminación / RIOOD) invited were examined, as well as the transformative role CROP’s Director to participate in its IV Extraordinary Meeting of public policy to address these social problems and in the international conference on «Discrimination, and achieve the above-mentioned SDG targets. Equal Opportunity and Development». These events took RIOOD is an inter-institutional network created place in Buenos Aires from 28-31 August 2016 with the to eliminate discrimination in both the public and participation of international specialists and government private spheres. It is made up of 39 government and NGO representatives. (Watch video presentation) agencies, international organizations and NGOs During the international conference, participants located in 18 countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, paid special attention to the multiple interactions Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, between poverty and discrimination, as well as Guatemala, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, states’ responsibilities to achieve SDG targets # Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Portugal & Spain).

Second semester 2016 - page 3 - CROP © Photo: CROP L recent years has reached 21 countries and benefited more more benefited and 21 countries reached has years recent in which intervention, social akey considered widely is CCT, programmes, of these One Income. Basic as well as Allowances, Family and Child Universal and (CCT) programs Transfer Cash Conditional as such programmes specific through assistance of social subject broad the with 2017. during form book in published be to ones relevant most the selecting before depth, in papers the examine to applied was model workshop CROP’s event. this at discussed and presented were call open an through selected papers Eighteen 2016. 21-23 from September Brazil Bahia, de Salvador in took place and UCSAL by hosted was workshop The America. Latin in Income Basic and Rights Labour States, Welfare on workshop athree-day (UCSAL), CROP organised Salvador of University Catholic the with partnership In W I ncome in L abour R abour The workshop was divided into four sessions and dealt dealt and sessions four into divided was workshop The orkshop on W on orkshop ights and B and ights atin America elfare S asic tates, Second semester 2016 - page 4-CROP 2016 - page semester Second More information More public. general the and community of UCSAL’s members with academic adebate in engaged and discussions the in actively participated who experts global and regional by attended were event public the and workshop the Both held UCSAL. at was “ entitled provide. they services and assistance of the quality the ensure and poverty structural with deal to opportunities actual their overestimate to tend however, governments reproduction; intergenerational its prevent and poverty reduce to instruments adequate as considered often are programmes assistance Social society. American of Latin features determining be to continued inequality income and poverty structural that agreed also of them most Nevertheless, off. worst of the capacity consumption the increasing and poverty alleviating indeed were governments by implemented programmes social that was workshop the at present academics and experts most by shared opinion An end. an to coming may be countries American Latin some in wages minimum in increase and markets of labour formalisation emerging an in resulted has that decade last over the process the forpublication. papers of the revision the feed will experience learning collective This discussed. were programmes of these aresult as generated dynamics political socio- and incentives and assessed, were particular in markets labour the on and large at society on programmes of the effects Moreover, the justice. social promoting and poverty reducing in initiatives of such potential the estimate to order in considered were programmes, various the on research exploratory and analytical descriptive, as well as GDP. studies, case regional of the Comparative 0.39% of only cost amodest at people 132 million than As a complement to the workshop, a public event event workshop, apublic the to acomplement As that agreement general in were participants Overall, Latin America: Social Reform at aCrossroad at Reform Social America: Latin ”

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«New» poverty in Middle Income editors, Einar Braathen (Research Professor at NIBR/ Countries (book launch) HiOA) and Marianne Ulriksen (Senior Research Fellow, University of Johannesburg & Aarhus University). Other The book, Poverty and Inequality in Middle Income Countries, contributors to the book were also present at the book argues that inequality within the so-called Middle Income launch and participated in the general discussion. Countries should be high on the international poverty After a general introduction to the content of the book, agenda. The book was published by Zed Books, London, there was a panel debate on what characterises global in CROP’s International Studies in Poverty Research series poverty in 2016 and what challenges this «the new poverty in April 2016. The editors of the book are Einar Braathen, map» potentially poses for traditional ? Members of Julian May, Marianne Ulriksen and Gemma Wright. the panel were Liv Tørres (Director of the Nobel Peace The formal book launch was held on Wednesday 21 Center), Knut Thonstad (Assistant Director at Norad) and September 2016 at Oslo and Akershus University College Ivar Lødemel (Professor at the Department of Social Work, of Applied Sciences (HiOA), as this is the home institution Child Welfare and Social Policy), in addition to the editors of one of the editors, Einar Braathen, at the Norwegian Braathen and Ulriksen. The debate was moderated by Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR). Charlotte Lillefjære-Tertnæs from the CROP Secretariat. During the launch, the book was presented by two of the More information

Lecture and launch of the new Working Paper Series on Global Challenges

To mark the celebration of UN’s the changes in the causes of poverty International Day for the Eradication and the prospects of achievability of Poverty, Andy Sumner, reader in of its eradication before 2030 were International Development at King’s critically assessed during the lecture. College London, held a lecture with At the end of his talk, Andy Sumner, the title “Ending Global Poverty: in his role as editor, hosted the launch Why wait until 2030?” at the Bergen of the new Working Paper Series on Resource Centre for International Global Challenges, a joint initiative by Development on 20 October. UiB Global and CROP, and presented The lecture was jointly organized by the first issue of the series: “Global CROP and UiB Global and sought to Inequality since the Cold War: How discuss new research findings claiming robust is the optimistic narrative?” that as causes of poverty are changing, The authors of this paper are Peter the ’ objective to Edward of the Newcastle University achieve a world free of poverty by Business School and Andy Sumner. 2030 could actually be reached

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2016 General Assembly of the Sciences (HiOA) and was fully booked with around International Social Science 200 registered participants. It was organised jointly by the ISSC, CROP and HiOA, with sponsorship from Council (ISSC) in Oslo the Research Council of Norway and support from the Norwegian UNESCO Committee. The seminar addressed The 30th ISSC General Assembly took place in Oslo from current challenges posed by migration and integration 24-25 October 2016. The first day of the GA was a joint worldwide and discussed policy responses and the role of General Assembly with the International Council for science in addressing these issues. Researchers from all Science (ICSU), where the central topic for discussion regions of the world and from across the social science was a proposed merger of the two organisations. disciplines presented current research on migration and The General Assembly was followed by a thematic engaged in discussions with international experts and seminar on 26 October on the topic: “On the Move – practitioners. The identification of future research needs Global Migrations, Challenges and Responses”. was a cross-cutting theme throughout the conference. After discussions that highlighted varying points of view CROP Scientific Director took part in the plenary on the proposed merger, the joint ISSC/ICSU General roundtable discussion “Leaving no one behind: How useful Assembly voted to accept an ‘in principle’ agreement to is Agenda 2030 in responding to challenges of migration?” further explore the merger of the two organisations. A joint task force will be appointed that will work over the next year to develop a transition plan to be presented at next year’s joint GA in Taipei. CROP will follow these developments with interest and recognises the challenges and opportunities presented by the prospect of a larger international organisation encompassing all scientific disciplines. CROP was represented at the General Assembly by Scientific Director Alberto Cimadamore, together with administrative staff members Charlotte Lillefjære-Tertnæs and Maria Sollohub. On the second day, as part of the ISSC’s own General Assembly, an “Activities Marketplace” was organised for the ISSC academic programmes. As part of this initiative, CROP was able to present its work to other GA delegates in the form of a PowerPoint presentation, posters and brochures, along with examples of our recent publications. The Thematic Seminar “On the Move – Global Migrations, Challenges and Responses”, on 26 October, was held

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that there were a total of 25 scholars and more precisely, the Sustainable Social Inclusion and actively participating in the event. Development Goals (SDGs) that Poverty Eradication The first day was organised in three refer to “inclusive” development and Workshop panels introducing and debating nine growth. In the logic of the SDGs, different scientific papers. During the sustained and inclusive economic A two-day international workshop first session, participants articulated growth is considered a necessary on Social Inclusion and Poverty critical views on stigmatization, shame condition for achieving sustainable Eradication was organised by CROP and isolation of the poor, analysing development. The relevance of this together with the Minda de Gunzburg how ignored or excluded groups concept is therefore palpable, as is the Center for European Studies and the enlarge socioeconomic disadvantage. need for its operationalization and Weatherhead Center for International The second and third sessions were transformation into precise indicators Affairs, both at Harvard University. then dedicated to the discussion of to measure progress towards the The workshop took place from 17-18 disciplines as wide-ranging as the achievement of goals (particularly, November 2016 and was hosted by racial exclusion and affirmative SDG#8). The links between economic the Center for European Studies. action in poverty in India, and the and social inclusiveness within the Through a combination of an open inclusion policies and anti-poverty new development process pose several call for papers and direct invitations, programmes in the European Union. research challenges that were also a total of 13 papers were selected Inclusion policies in developing addressed during the debates. to be presented and discussed countries and rights to inclusion The event ended with the over the course of the two-day mechanisms were explored by the presentation of the book “Child Poverty, workshop. The aim was to explore international experts as the topics of Youth (Un)Employment, and Social and achieve a better understanding discussion for the rest of the papers Inclusion” recently published by CROP. of how social inclusion and poverty during the final day of the workshop. An editorial meeting was also held to eradication are interconnected and One of the axes of the workshop discuss possibilities of publication of how social exclusion is causally was the new development agenda the papers presented at the workshop. related to the reproduction of poverty in contemporary societies. The workshop differed from the typical CROP workshop format in that local specialists were invited as commentators in order to expand the range of disciplines and scientific traditions involved in the debate, and to promote the interaction between Harvard-based scholars and the international colleagues

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Second semester 2016 - page 7 - CROP PUBLICATIONS CROP books published in 2016 During the second In December, the first book in half of 2016, one the new CROP International more book was Poverty Studies series with published by Zed Ibidem Verlag was published; Books in the CROP International Studies in Poverty Research series: Peasant Poverty and Persistence in the 21st Century Child poverty, youth Edited by Julio Boltvinik and Susan Archer Mann, (un)employment and this book was published in August 2016 and offers new social inclusion critical, theoretical, historical and policy perspectives on the persistence of world’s peasant and rural poverty. Edited by Maria Petmesidou, Enrique Delamonica, Several book launch presentations for this book; the Aldrie Henry-Lee and Christos Papatheodorou, this book first one at El Colegio de México in Mexico City on was published in December 2016. The book comes out 27 October; the second at El Centro de Investigaciones of the workshop with the same name, held in Athens, y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social (CIESAS) Greece, in 2014. By critically unravelling the long-term in Guadalajara, Mexico, on 17 November (watch video). consequences of growing up poor, the close linkages The most recent launch was hosted by the Journal of between multiple deprivations and their effects on Agrarian Change and Department of Development labour market entry and future career, this book seeks Studies at SOAS, London, on 30 November. to supplement existing literature in the field. More

Joint winners of CROP David Barkin Meera Tiwari International Studies Food Sovereignty Why some in Poverty Prize 2016 as a Strategy development for Confronting works Poverty and The CROP Secretariat is pleased In the other Inequality to announce joint winners of the winning entry, CROP International Studies in In his winning book proposal, David Meera Tiwari (University of East Poverty Prize 2016, awarded in co- Barkin (Professor of Economics at the London) draws attention to success operation with Zed Books, London. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana stories in the fight against poverty The prize is awarded annually to in México City) challenges current and focuses on what made them outstanding monograph proposals approaches to alleviating poverty successful. Using a multidimensional contributing to research on global by focusing on the direct action of understanding of poverty, the book poverty eradication or prevention. communities to organise themselves proposal aims to offer insights into to satisfy their own basic food needs causal, enabling, and impeding factors The 2016 CROP prize will be shared and those of their region with self- for progress at macro and micro levels. between two excellent submissions: help development strategies.

Both manuscripts will be published as monographs in the book series ‘International Studies in Poverty Research’, which is a joint venture by CROP and Zed Books.

Special issue of the Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy

During the World Social Science Forum in Durban, September 2015, CROP organised two scientific panels; one on “Global Justice and Poverty in the Transformation of Millennium Development Goals into Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)” and one on “Poverty, Social justice and Policy in a Regional Comparative Perspective”. The presentations made by these panels have been revised for this special issue into critical commentaries and opinion pieces as early responses to the SDG developments, in order to provoke further debate among social policy and social development scholars regarding the adequacy and effectiveness of the SDGs as a framework for increasing global social justice. The special issue was edited by Prof. Bob Deacon, Sheffield University, UK. Visit Taylor & Francis to download the individual articles

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The following Poverty Briefs were published between July and December 2016

Measuring Poverty in Bangladesh: A Critical Assessment By Isahaque Ali, Zulkarnain A. Hatta and New Working Paper Azlinda Azman (School of Social Sciences, Series on Global University of Science, ) Challenges This study suggests using the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) as a more accurate method A new Global Challenges for measuring poverty in Bangladesh. It reveals Working Paper Series is a joint a more precise picture of poverty by shifting initiative by UiB Global and attention from solely income factors to include CROP to publish early research other intrinsically important dimensions such findings related to global as health, education and living standards. challenges such as poverty, inequality, sustainability and other relevant cross-disciplinary issues. Poverty and Social Inclusion: Towards a ‘life-first’ understanding? The peer-reviewed open access By Hartley Dean (Dept. of Social Policy, London series will be edited by Dr Andy School of Economics and Political Science, UK) Sumner of King’s College, London, This brief argues that a life-first understanding together with an editorial team provides a foundation for a politics of social currently consisting of Alberto inclusion that resolves the tension between social Cimadamore (CROP), Tore Sætersdal security and personal autonomy. A shared life-first (UiB Global), Roxana Maurizio understanding of social inclusion can offer a holistic (University of Buenos Aires) basis for a concerted struggle against poverty. and Laura Camfield (University of East Anglia). The series was conceived as a vehicle for scholars in our global network to swiftly disseminate their research. It will be Poverty as a wicked problem made available through the Bergen By Paul Spicker (Robert Gordon University, UK) Open Research Archive (BORA) at the University of Bergen. Describing poverty as a ‘wicked problem’ implies that poverty reduction policies are never going to The first paper in the series, entitled work comprehensively and exhaustively, but they Global Inequality and Global Poverty can address some parts of the complex tangle or since the Cold War: How robust is the inter-related issues. Responding to poverty is not optimistic narrative? is written by a matter of solving problems: it is about trying Andy Sumner and Peter Edward to make things better than they were before. of the Newcastle University Business School. The paper is relevant for academics, students of , policy CROP welcomes submissions to the CROP makers in international agencies. Poverty Brief series, contact us for further details on how to submit proposals. http://www.crop.org/Publications/ BriefsSeries/default.aspx

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Video Project: “Visualising Poverty Research”

Five more interviews have been added to the video project “Visualising Poverty Research” in the second semester of 2016. The project was launched by CROP in September 2014, seeking to disseminate poverty research to a wider audience using video interviews published on CROP’s YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/user/CROPSecretariat) By 1 December 2016, a total of 37 interviews conducted with researchers belonging to CROP’s global network, were available on the YouTube channel - all applying their own research experience to answer standard questions related to poverty. • The most watched interview has had 520 The channel has now been running for more than two viewings since it was first published. years and the “Visualising Poverty Research” video project has produced the following statistics for the last half of 2016: In addition to the “Visualising Poverty Research” project, CROP also publishes other videos, including presentations • A total number of 668 views from of recent CROP books and the working paper series, 1 July to 1 December 2016 thus increasing the total viewings of the channel. • The videos have been accessed from 64 different “Visualising Poverty Research” has proved to be an countries during the second semester of 2016. As efficient way of disseminating knowledge with a potential in the first half of the year, Norway, USA and South to reach a wider audience than our written publications Africa still represent more than 60% of the visits. and we are very happy with the results achieved so far.

Visit to Bergen by representatives from EADI

CROP is one of the member institutions of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), an organisation with which we will be cooperating closely in 2017. The EADI Nordic Conference 2017, “Globalisation at the Crossroads - Rethinking Inequalities and Boundaries”, will take place in Bergen from 21-23 August 2017. The conference is being organised by a joint partnership between EADI, NFU (Norwegian Association of Development Research), the University of Bergen (UiB) and the Chr. © Photo: CROP Michelsen Institute (CMI). In mid-August 2016, EADI’s CROP interns with EADI representatives on top of the Rundemanen mountain in Bergen Executive Secretary Susanne von Itter and Executive Assistant Julia Schönberg visited Bergen in order to several proposals. CROP has been invited to participate start the more detailed planning of next year’s event. in a panel together with EADI’s Working Group on This also gave room for a meeting between the EADI Multidimensional Poverty and has proposed a joint meeting representatives and the CROP Secretariat, which enabled with the Working Group to be held within the context of us to establish a common platform for future joint activities, the Conference. There is also a plan to organise a special including CROP’s contributions to the 2017 conference. event to present the latest World Social Science Report in A call for panels and papers for the Nordic Conference collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies was issued at the end of August and CROP is involved in (IDS) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC).

Second semester 2016 - page 10 - CROP CROP granted NOK 2 million in project funding

In October, CROP was notified of educational cooperation between the success of its application to the the University of Kwazulu-Natal UTFORSK Programme offered by The (UKZN) in South Africa and the Norwegian Centre for International University of Bergen. The project Cooperation in Education (SIU). period will run from January 2017 – December 2020 and will establish a The UTFORSK Partnership Programme series of joint activities to consolidate significant outputs will be a series offers long-term funding for joint an international epistemic community of short-term, intensive courses and projects between higher education in the field of sustainable development summer school courses on poverty and institutions in Norway and Brazil, and poverty reduction. The Council sustainable development for Master China, India, Japan, Russia and for the Development of Social Science and PhD students, as well as a virtual South Africa. This funding will Research in Africa (CODESRIA) will reading room that will provide relevant support academic partnerships based be a network partner, providing the literature with free and open access. on the mutual strategic interests opportunity for wider regional impact. of the partner institutions. The total grant awarded The title of the project is “Partnership is NOK 1 974 934. CROP submitted an application for a for Poverty and Sustainable long-term project aimed at revitalizing Development Studies” and the most

Student interns at the CROP Secretariat

The CROP Secretariat received its first Erasmus+ student intern in October 2015. Since then, we have had the pleasure of hosting 1-2 interns as an integrated part of our work at the Secretariat. During their stay at the Secretariat, the students provide invaluable assistance and input to the permanent staff, while they themselves obtain international work experience in the field of research dissemination and administration. They also gain insight into the

poverty research being undertaken by © Photo: CROP © Photo: CROP members of CROP’s global network. Riccarda Sutter & Cédric Béguin Laura Liberatore

The following interns have been at the Secretariat in the second half of 2016: • August-October 2016 • August-December 2016 • From October 2016 (full time): (part time): (full time): Riccarda Sutter Cédric Béguin Laura Liberatore (Master student from the (Swiss national with a BA from (Spanish national with a BA Vienna University of Economics the Hague University of Applied from the King Juan Carlos and Business, Austria) Sciences, The Netherlands) University of Madrid, Spain)

Laura will be staying at the CROP Secretariat until March 2017 and the next intern will arrive in January 2017. Internships at the CROP Secretariat appear to be attracting well qualified and highly motivated students. The Secretariat has already filled all available internships for the academic year 2016-2017 and is currently recruiting for the academic year 2017-2018.

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Selected CROP Events in 2017

13-25 June 2017 PHD COURSE “Agenda 2030: Poverty, Climate Change and Sustainability” as part of the Bergen Summer Research School. BERGEN, NORWAY More

13-15 June 2017 WORKSHOP “Social Policy, Inequality, and Poverty in post- Socialist Societies”, ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA. More

6-7 July 2017 WORKSHOP “The Politics of Inclusion”, in collaboration with UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations Programme (MOST), PARIS, FRANCE. More

20-23 August 2017 PANELS at the EADI Nordic Conference 2017, “Globalisation at the Crossroads - Rethinking Inequalities and Boundaries”, BERGEN, NORWAY More

All dates are subject to confirmation

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